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Dec. 20, 2005
Rev. George W. Nolan, S.J., former treasurer of Holy Cross and College Trustee, died Dec. 20 at the Campion Center in Weston, Mass., at 84.
During his career, Fr. Nolan served the New England Province of the Jesuits in various capacities, most recently as the superior at Loyola House in Boston, from 1991-99; relocating to Campion Center in 1999, he had been house treasurer there until his retirement in 2004.
Fr. Nolan first worked at the Provincial Offices as assistant treasurer, secretary to the provincial superior and director of the Jesuit Seminary Guild. He then served as the treasurer of Holy Cross from 1962-70.
After completing four years as executive assistant to the provincial superior, Fr. Nolan went to Jamaica to assume the post of assistant to the president of St. Joseph Hospital, which was then under construction. Becoming pastor and president of the mission to St. Thomas More Church in the town of May Pen in 1977, he was assigned two years later to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in St. Ann's Bay. From 1988-91, Fr. Nolan served as the rector of the Jesuit Community at St. George's College in Jamaica.
He entered the Society of Jesus in Lenox, Mass., in 1941 and pursued ascetical and classical studies there for four years. From 1945-48, Fr. Nolan studied philosophy at Weston (Mass.) College and then taught three years at the New England Province Jesuits' secondary school in Jamaica. Returning to Weston College in 1951 to study theology, he also worked during this time at the college's Seismology Observatory and earned a degree in geophysics.
Fr. Nolan was ordained to the priesthood in 1954. After completing a year of theology studies and earning his baccalaureate degree in sacred theology, he pursued a year of advanced ascetical studies and pastoral work in Pomfret, Conn.
Fr. Nolan is survived by a sister-in-law; four nephews; a niece; numerous grandnephews and grandnieces; and cousins.
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